1 / 18

BUDGET FAIR 2015

BUDGET FAIR 2015. Cllr Charles Gerrish Cabinet Member for Finance and Efficiency. Background. O ver £30M of Savings / New Income have been delivered over past 4 years. Government Spending Review covering up to 2020 Underway. Estimated that up to £38M more required over next 4 years.

barbarathomas
Download Presentation

BUDGET FAIR 2015

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. BUDGET FAIR 2015 Cllr Charles GerrishCabinet Member for Finance and Efficiency

  2. Background • Over £30M of Savings / New Income have been delivered over past 4 years. • Government Spending Review covering up to 2020 Underway. • Estimated that up to £38M more required over next 4 years. • The Council Spending Review has identified a range of savings and income generating options • Cabinet has Agreed a Corporate Strategy Setting out Council Vision to 2020 – for Council Approval in Feb 2016

  3. The Budget Proposal • The Budget Proposal for 2016/17 will reflect financial planning through to 2019/2020. • Plans for each of the 3 Council Directorate’s (Place, Resources and People & Communities) to Policy Development & Scrutiny Panels in Nov 2015 and Jan 2016. • These Directorate Plans set out the Budget proposals in more detail. • Approximately £19M has been identified so far – that’s already around 50% of the total required over the next four years.

  4. Prioritisation Principles To meet the Financial Challenge the Budget Proposals will prioritise: • Protecting vital frontline services • Re-designing services and increasing efficiency • Growing income

  5. Protecting Frontline Services (1) The Budget will seek to protect frontline services including: • Children’s and youth services, including Children’s Centres and child protection services. • Schools, including investment in new schools and school buildings. • Adult health and social care services. • Environmental services including street cleansing, waste recycling, LED street lighting, environmental health, with no further public toilet closures.

  6. Protecting Frontline Services (2) Further protected frontline services include: • Affordable housing delivery. • Planning, regeneration and business support. • Maintaining and improving the highway network and its safety. • Leisure services, to support a 1% year on year increase in participation in physical activity.

  7. Redesigning Services & Increasing Efficiency • New ways of working and delivering services • Improving financial efficiencies. • Opportunities for sharing services and collaborating including health organisations and local authorities. • Continuing to deliver shared public service one stop shops. • Managing demand for Health and social care services through Your Care Your Way • Focussing on early-intervention services to help people before illnesses deteriorate. • Building on the success of the Connecting Families programme to support vulnerable families.

  8. Growing Income To generate around £7 million over the four-year period from new additional income including: • Growing the visitor economy, more markets, pop-ups and events. • Increasing Heritage Services’ contribution – supported by increasing capital investment. • More weddings and events at local parks. • Improve connectivity to support local businesses as well as generating WIFI connection income for the Council.. • Growing income from the Council’s commercial estateby acquiring more properties. • Developing the CCTV service on a more commercial footing.  • Setting up a property company to enable private market housing on Council-owned land or vacant accommodation.

  9. Capital Spending Priorities • Supporting essential frontline services (schools, leisure facilities etc.) • Commercial projects that generate an income for the Council to help protect frontline services • Providing new and maintaining essential infrastructure (roads, bridges, building etc.) • Projects to deliver regeneration and growth of the local economy

  10. Schools Range of school improvements and new building to commence including: • Paulton Junior School £465k to expansion to proved additional 63 places • Bishop Sutton Primary School £402K – final phase to replace temporary accomodation. • Ensleigh – £3.4M for a new Primary School to commence 2016. • Pictures Here

  11. Leisure Bath • £8 million refurbishment for Bath leisure centre to commence mid 2016 • £200,000 Improvements to Culverhay leisure centre planned for 2016 Keynsham • New Leisure Facility to be provided by 2019 • Site to be selected as part of Placemaking plan Further public consultation - spring 2016

  12. Essential Infrastructure Transport • East of Bath Park & Ride – Councillors to work together on options. • Improvement programme to include A39 Hallatrow Junction and Hayesfied School Crossing Highways Maintenance • £1.2M Midland Road Bridge refurbishment completed. • Prioritised Programme for highways and structures

  13. Regeneration & Growth (1) BWR • 400 units complete including 156 Affordable. • 813 by the end of Phase 1 in 2018/19 • Destructor Bridge replacement opens summer 2016 Bath Quays • Flood alleviation work starts Jan 2016 • Bridge design competition winner Marc Mimram • £56M for development identified in Capital Budget

  14. Regeneration & Growth (2) Somer Valley Business Centre • Will provide much needed office space for the Somer Valley • Linked to the existing Wansdyke Business Centre Digital B&NES • £2.25M for next generation ultra and superfast broadband infrastructure upgrading • Central Bath Area covered. • Public WiFi, generating up to £1M income.

  15. Other New Investments New Capital Investment proposals will include: • Tbc £M – to start the replacement of our ageing Waste Collection vehicle fleet. • £200K – Keynsham Town Centre highway pilot • £150K – Wayfinding – Walcot & Widcombe • £150K – River Corridor Fund • £750K – Roman Baths, Archway Project supporting £3.8M of lottery finding. • £174K – Radstock Pedestrian Bridge • Capital to Support income generating projects

  16. Outstanding Issues • Final Budget proposal to be developed following Government announcements on Local Govt Funding. • Budget for 2016/17 unlikely to vary significantly from these proposals. • A series of planned reviews to be taken forwards during 2016 to find new areas for saving money and generating income. • A decision on Council Tax will be made once we have received the Govt funding announcements.

  17. SUMMARY / NEXT STEPS • Finalise a balanced Budget Proposal for 2016/17 delivering £19M of savings & new income. • A further £19M to be identified from service reviews • No savings from protected Frontline Services • All “Subject To” – Government Funding • Cabinet to finalise its Budget Proposal during January 2016. • Council 16 Feb 2016 to consider Budget and Council Tax setting.

  18. Questions and Comments

More Related